Comparison

煮 Fun vs Civa Dish & Day

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

煮 Fun

Easily import recipes from across the web and plan your meals with a smart calendar. Track your cooking, discover healthy options, and organize your culinary journey.

Highlights
  • One-click recipe import
  • Smart low-calorie recipe filtering
  • Meal calendar and planning
  • Cooking journal and notes
  • Offline recipe caching
  • Dynamic Island cooking timer
Features
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煮 Fun (煮饭),一站式菜谱收纳与三餐规划工具,一键导入小红书、抖音全网美食食谱,记录下厨日常、智能筛选低卡餐食,轻松解决每日做饭难题。 一键导入全网菜谱 复制平台链接自动解析配料、烹饪步骤,告别手动摘抄,做饭无需来回切换软件翻找食谱。 智能低卡食谱筛选 自动标注低脂、低糖、低油餐食,减脂控卡人群快速匹配适配食谱,省去手动计算热量配比。 美食三餐日历记录 下厨随手记录成品、烹饪心得与改良技巧,自动按日期归档,留存专属烟火饮食记忆。 周期三餐提前规划 自定义未来日期添加心仪菜谱,一键规划整周菜单,告别 “今天吃什么” 选择困难。 独家特色体验 灵动岛烹饪计时,切屏也能实时查看时长,炒菜不慌乱 自动生成专属美食相册,完整记录厨艺成长全过程 菜谱离线缓存,厨房无网络也能顺畅查看做法 无开屏广告、无强制弹窗,纯净沉浸式下厨环境 支持批量导入多条食谱,高效完成一周饮食规划 适配所有下厨人群 纠结每日餐食的上班族、独居青年;减脂控卡、追求健康饮食的爱好者;热爱记录生活、珍藏烟火日常的美食玩家;嫌抄菜谱繁琐的懒人;想要规律三餐、稳步提升厨艺的做饭达人。

About

Civa Dish & Day

This app helps food lovers manage their culinary journey. Track dishes you want to eat, recipes you've made, and plan future meals. It also helps you keep an inventory of your fridge with expiration reminders.

Highlights
  • Manage desired and cooked dishes
  • Schedule meals for specific dates
  • Track fridge ingredients
  • Receive expiration reminders
  • Save cooking memories
Features
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Civa is a local-first kitchen journal for dishes you want to try, meals you have cooked, meal planning, fridge ingredients, shopping and everyday food memories. Add photos, ingredients, instructions and notes to your recipes. Record home-cooked meals and dining out, track fridge usage and add purchased ingredients to your inventory. Optionally enable iCloud to sync your personal kitchen across devices using the same Apple Account, or continue using local features. Share a recipe or invite friends to choose dishes, and manage online links in Share Center. The shop offers optional paid decorations. Pumpkin Autumn includes three tablecloths and four plates and supports purchase restoration. Existing free tableware remains free. Export and import .civa kitchen backups. iCloud sync is not a historical backup; keep independent copies outside the app. No Civa account registration is required. Privacy: https://civakitchen.site/privacy Support: https://civakitchen.site/support

Screenshots

煮 Fun4 screens
Civa Dish & Day4 screens

Verdict

The call

煮 Fun and Civa Dish & Day both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 87% of Civa Dish & Day's written reviews are positive against 50% of 煮 Fun's. Civa Dish & Day also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs fortnightly). 煮 Fun's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Civa Dish & Day sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. 煮 Fun asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for 煮 Fun against 5.0 for Civa Dish & Day. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 50% of 煮 Fun's written reviews are positive against 87% of Civa Dish & Day's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

煮 Fun ships an update fortnightly, Civa Dish & Day every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
煮 Fun versus Civa Dish & Day: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter煮 FunCiva Dish & Day
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews86.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB107 MB
Age rating17+17+
Developer君鹏 畅炀薇 徐

Customer experience

煮 Fun

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative25.0%

Civa Dish & Day

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews15 reviews
Positive86.7%
Neutral6.7%
Negative6.7%

In-app purchases

None

煮 Fun

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Civa Dish & Day

One-time1
  • Pumpkin Autumn$0.99

Questions

Is 煮 Fun free?
煮 Fun is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Civa Dish & Day free?
Civa Dish & Day is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, 煮 Fun or Civa Dish & Day?
煮 Fun and Civa Dish & Day are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do 煮 Fun or Civa Dish & Day have ads?
Neither 煮 Fun nor Civa Dish & Day shows ads.
Which is updated more often, 煮 Fun or Civa Dish & Day?
煮 Fun ships an update fortnightly, and Civa Dish & Day every 2 days. Most recently, 煮 Fun was updated on October 31, 2026 and Civa Dish & Day on November 6, 2026.

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